One of the true joys of science education is when the topics discussed become real life application. This year in my biology classes we began a plant garden. The purpose of this garden is to provide students with a personal connection to the plant kinds that God created. Instead of looking at pictures of various types of plants, students will actually see them close up (and even plant and maintain them). This year we began a succulent garden (with many types of cacti, etc.). This is a small beginning to a very ambitious plan to have the entire area become a botanical garden for viewing and scientific identification. One day in the future I hope that there will be representative plants from all major Biblical Kinds and also from all continents of the world. As of now, we have mimicked the desert (or arid) biome with our mini-desert landscape. See the pictures below. We already have well over 50 species represented.
Baraminology is the study of the ancestry of life on Earth (biosystematics), which draws from the presupposition that God created many kinds of organisms as described in the Biblical book of Genesis. In short, it is an effort to find scientific means to determine which forms of life are related, and which are not. Creationist biosystematics enables us to more clearly view and understand relationships that might not be visible from a naturalistic perspective. Most importantly, it provides another way for us to know the Creator.
In 1941, Frank Marsh coined the word “baramin.” It was derived by combining two Hebrew words – ברא, bara (“created”), and מין, mīn (“kind”), referring to the use of the word “kind” in Genesis 1 . Although the concept of a created kind became common in creationist literature, a “kind” had not been clearly defined. We now understand the kind to be a group of organisms who share a genetic relationship through common descent from an organism originally created by God during the Creation Week.
*Last two paragraphs from…http://creationwiki.org/Baraminology
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